I Just Want Players to Save Money, They Insist on Giving Me!
Chapter 187 - 86: Hollow Knight Not Hollow, Hardcore Gamers Have a Tender Side!_2

Chapter 187: Chapter 86: Hollow Knight Not Hollow, Hardcore Gamers Have a Tender Side!_2

Ke Jin started to let loose and played games all night long.

Games from Earth are still the best!

When he was tired of playing battle royales and wanted to relax, he would play Wind Traveler.

If he wanted something more challenging, he’d play Hollow Knight.

Sometimes, when he fancied being a conscientious mayor, he’d launch Skyline.

He could finally handpick eight or nine masterpieces to play without having to hold his nose and force himself through those cliche Blue Star games.

When he got too engrossed, he would forget about the time, and before he knew it, it was already daylight.

But luckily, he was the boss of the company.

He played games after work and slept soundly at the office, an utterly blissful arrangement!

And the good days were still to come.

After this period was over, all games would be unlocked!

"Tsk tsk tsk, I won’t go crazy playing, will I?"

Just thinking about being financially independent and surrounded by all sorts of fun games made him feel celestial.

"Hmm?"

Suddenly, Ke Jin noticed a noisy commotion from within the company.

He looked at his watch.

The hands pointed to seven o’clock.

By rights, at this time, and also not during the game development period,

the staff should have left work early.

Pushing the door open, Ke Jin immediately saw the lights on in the meeting room at the far corner.

Through the frosted glass, he could vaguely tell it was packed with people!

"Damn, these guys wouldn’t be up to something behind my back, would they?"

These guys had a history.

Which involuntarily made Ke Jin’s heart skip a beat.

With success on the horizon, his weather-beaten little boat couldn’t withstand any further turbulence.

Bros, you can’t stab me in the back!

You mustn’t, oh!

He walked briskly towards the meeting room.

As soon as he opened the door.

Everyone’s gaze turned toward him, and the noisy meeting room fell silent in an instant.

And on the projector, there played a game scene he found familiar.

Hollow Knight!

"What’s going on?" Ke Jin asked suspiciously as he glanced at the crowd.

Gou Chehua stood up and briefly explained the situation.

Ke Jin finally understood.

It turned out that a livestreamer had recently gained popularity by streaming Hollow and had even paid for a speedrunning competition out of his own pocket, attracting investment from Thunderbolt’s official platform.

The competition was now in its first round, about to determine the winner.

Ke Jin swept a glance at the live broadcast’s viewership.

million!

His head buzzed on the spot.

Bad news! There’s a pest!

Blue Star had no decent events, but Ke Jin had seen the major gaming events on Earth in his previous life.

In his former life, when world-renowned games held large-scale events, they could cause a global sensation among gamers!

The fervor was so explosive that the world’s major news media headlines would all feature related topics.

Ke Jin knew all too well how influential an event could be in spreading a game!

A good event could even cause the game to surge by several million daily active users and tens of millions of monthly active users in a short period of time, no exaggeration!

Therefore, even on Blue Star, Ke Jin dared not carelessly throw out ’events’ as a point of attraction.

Fearing that it would remind others, who might then start holding events for any competitive game they developed.

If an event exploded in popularity, it would draw crazy cash flow for their games.

That would be like shooting oneself in the foot.

But unexpectedly.

The decision he dared not make.

Had already been made by someone else.

Particularly a competition lasting about a week and a half, even gaining traffic support from Thunderbolt.

They would keep the excitement high throughout the event.

That was a far more significant force to reckon with than the burst from a single popular streamer!

At this rate, his mission seemed to hang by a thread again...

This won’t do.

I have to save myself!

After a rapid mental brainstorm,

Ke Jin scanned the crowd and spoke calmly,

"Director Gou, contact Thunderbolt tomorrow and have the competition stopped."

Upon hearing this, the atmosphere in the office immediately quieted down.

Everyone incredulously looked up at their boss.

For a moment, they felt he was like a stranger.

why???

Anticipating this reaction from everyone, Ke Jin had already mentally prepared his countermeasures.

"I’m not opposed to organizing competitions, but the event’s authorization must be in our company’s hands."

"Otherwise, anyone could come along wanting to ride on the company’s popularity, and they just have to start a competition to achieve that."

After those words,

everyone found that Mr. Ke seemed to make some sense.

Games that held competitions before were rare, and almost no one thought much about it, assuming that having a competition was a good thing.

But from another perspective, if this competition went smoothly and became famous, making Thunderbolt and the streamer earn a fortune while the Number One Player Company had no control in the process.

Then more and more people would likely follow in their footsteps, and it would become the normal thing to do.

Trying to retake control of event authorizations later would be difficult.

"Alright..." Although the competition projected behind him was intense, Gou Chehua still sighed softly and nodded in agreement.

Just as Ke Jin was about to leave the meeting room.

Suddenly.

He heard a voice from the projector, a post-competition interview.

"...I feel like I could have gone faster, were you nervous?"

"I... have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis..."

Ke Jin’s steps faltered slightly.

The meeting room fell into silence again.

Then, he turned to face the large screen.

After a few minutes of silence, with the room full of people, only the voice from the live broadcast could be heard.